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"OK, finally time to say something here.
Why I chose to become vegetarian (or at least part of the reason): sometimes I would eat a meat-free meal, other times not. Then I started thinking that every time I eat, I have a choice to eat something that…"

"Morality since its independent of religion. I find it very repugnant of the idea of a god that would allow a murder into heaven because that person believes in his "son" and condemn a non-believer even if they were the kindest person to…"

"It sounds really disturbing. Isn't it a little weird that you can have a ceremony that purports to be Christian and Islam at the same time? OK, it's not an overtly religious ceremony, but all the same, to ask for Islamic and…"

"One could argue the same pointlessness and stupidity of the Stiletto Heel. They are painful, pointless, and make the wearer look like an idiot for wanting to trapse around all day in pain for the sake of fashion. However, women wear them, because it…"

"Go ahead and hire him. He's probably wrong to say he only works for parishioners in his ad. He's probably glad of the work anyway and provided he doesn't demand that you declare yourself a Catholic before doing business, I don't…"

"Well, I live in a predominantly religious society, teaching English in Indonesia. Personally, I didn't draw Muhammad, on Facebook or anywhere else, as it might have upset some of my friends here and it could have landed me in trouble -…"

"Personally I think it's a great idea. I don't think you can leave lgbt issues out of an atheist group. It would be nice if you could, because it would mean that it wasn't an area of contention with the major religions. But it is an…"

"I'm so glad Mother Teresa wasn't nice to you, if that might have kept you on the dark side. Hitler could have done us all a favour by being more openly Catholic. The ambiguity is very distracting. Having to start any discussion with…"

"well put. I'd go further in your point 2. Any reference to "Creator" is clearly not intended to reference the Judeo-Christian god (take your pick from Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Paine etc). And you are too nice to O'Reilly, who…"

"I was quite disappointed to see Evan Harris lose his seat. It made me feel as though things are going backwards instead of forward.
I was following Ben Goldacre during the elections via Twitter and I was disheartened to hear the news."

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If Jesus was the best God could do, what a botched job he made of of telling his chosen people of his intentions.

He sent his son to earth to pass on his message in a way that was divisive, elitist and so ambiguous and open to interpretation that all the evils that have followed in the name of (what ‘right-thinking' Christians would call misguided extreme forms of) Christianity that he cannot shirk all…

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Yeah, I'm pretty quiet on FB too. I'm always afraid of hurting people's feelings and stuff. It's those really crazy news stories, though, that you just CANNOT keep your mouth shut about that get me into trouble. But thank you again, Martin. You've been very kind!! And it is nice seeing like-minded posts from my new buddies!

Hi
Welcome to Atheist Nexus with its 8800 good friends and discussion groups.
Among the groups, try visiting perhaps the busy group “ORIGINS: Universe, Life, Humans, Evolution, Religion.....” with its commonsense discussions. You will be welcome.
One is "Proud to be Atheist" (74 posts) seeing that atheists and humanists hold the intellectual strong ground compared with the pathetic superstitions of the god followers. Similarly, “Religion is aberrant, atheism is truth” (44 posts).
Terry Meaden (English physicist; Oxford; founder of “Origins”)